for defense nomineechuckhagelbattlingcritics from his own party. >> were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? were you correct or incorrect, yes or no? >> my reference to this -- >> the question is, were you right or wrong? that is straightforward question. i would like you to answer right or wrong and then you are free to elaborate. >> i'm not going to give you a yes or no answer. >> let the record show he refuses to answer the question. >> i'm a supporter of israel. i said in some cases i am a strong supporter of israel. i think it's in my book we have a special relationship with israel. >> name one person who has intimidated by the israeli lobby in the united states senate. >> first. >> name one. >> i don't know. >> why would you say it. >> i didn't have in mind a specific person. >> do you agree that it's a provocative statement, that i can't think of a more provocative thing to say about the relationship between united states and israel and the senate and congress in which you s

not a mob. >> greta: were you going to vote forsenatorhagel? >>i thought his confirmation hearing was disturbing. >> greta: does that mean you may still vote for him? >> we don't have enough information. we haven't gotten the information we requested. i don't think we should vote on chuck hagel until we get all the things we requested about the speeches he's made, but as to whether or not i will vote for him, i hope the administration will reconsider his nomination. he is a good man, but these are dangerous times. what kind of signal are you sending to the iranians when your secretary of defense seems to be throughless about what our policy is? >> greta: are you going to hold it up in any way? >> i'm trying to make sure, he made 15 speeches for money and i know what he said. i can tell you this: i've never seen the world more dangerous. there are more bonuses coming. before we confirm a new secretary of defense we have to find out whaf7d in benghazi and find out exactly what chuck hagel has been saying all these years. >> greta: coming up an american murdered in turkey. a live rep

was also crushed. allegations surfacing today that former senatorchuckhagelthedepartment is controlled by the israeli foreign military. and if the second statement were true said the secretary of state's office is it controlled by the israeli foreign military, and the israelis-u.s. relationship way out of the mainstream. if he were to accuse the department of state of being basically subserviant to the nation of israel that would be, that would be enough to scuttle this nomination. >> new questions about transparency within the obama administration as the white house press corps expressing frustration after being barred from the president's weekend golf trip to florida. >> the drive-by fit to be tied. and ed henry the head of the white house correspondent's association has logged an official complaint with the white house claiming lack of transparency. >> let me say it as simply as i can, transparency and the rule of low will be the touchstones of this presidency. >> do you think it's that big a deal. do you think that a picture with obama and tiger woods, it would hurt him?

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into power in egypt and we're going provide them m-16's and tanks. and nominee,chuckhagelmadequestions with israel and john brennan referred to jerusalem as what the radical islamists refer to it as. when you think about the environment which israel finds itself. hezbollah is stronger, and the dominance in iran and that causes a lot of of concern and of course this is coming from perez and not netanyahu. >> greta: i looked deeper into the award and a year old and president obama gave shimone peres an award when he was here a year ago. unique and significant contribution to strengthening the state of israel. and the challenges, what is the specifically unique contribution that president obama made to israel and the security of its citizen scitize? >> i would be the first to challenge that, when the president won in 2009 back in his inauguration, the first person he called was mahmoud abbas and the first interview he did was with al-arabia. and the borders, which incensed a lot of people in israel and i don't know if there are specific contributions, a lot of people will point